Vampire Lacerator

Creature - Vampire Warrior

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless an opponent has 10 or less life.

The lacerators cut themselves before each hunt. They must feed before the sun rises or bleed to death.

Vampire Nighthawk

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Vampire Nocturnus

Creature - Vampire

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

"Your life will set with the sun."

Vampire Outcasts

Creature - Vampire

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Vampire's Bite

Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. If Vampire's Bite was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Vampiric Fury

Instant

Vampire creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Many peasants secretly admire vampires' glamour and elegance-until they witness a moment of pure bloodlust.

Vampiric Rites

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

For vampires, blood carries more than life. Memories long eroded from the minds of bloodchiefs can be reclaimed from the veins of their sired kin.

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Vandalize

Sorcery

Choose one or both -

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target land.

"As we have learned from Kolaghan, to ruin is to rule."
-Shensu, Kolaghan rider

Vanguard of Brimaz

Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vanguard of Brimaz, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"The humans and their gods never blessed me. Only the pride deserves my allegiance."

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Vanishment

Instant

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Vapor Snag

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

"This creature is inadequate. Send it to the splicers for innovation."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Vapor Snare

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vapor Snare unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Vaporkin

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.

Vastwood Animist

Creature - Elf Shaman Ally

: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature until end of turn, where X is the number of Allies you control. It's still a land.

He calls on the forests for counsel and summons the earth to his cause.

Vastwood Gorger

Creature - Wurm

"A long and difficult incision revealed that all vital organs are housed in the head, save for a long chain of stomachs, forty in all, leading from its throat to the end of the tail."
-Mulak Ffar, Vastwood Biodiversity

Vastwood Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Vastwood Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

Vastwood Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 6/4 green Elemental creature. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Vault of the Archangel

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
-Sorin Markov

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Vault Skyward

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

"The edges of the Quicksilver Sea run dark with the spread of the Mephidross. Two more aerial passes before I can be sure what I'm seeing . . ."
-Lafarius, Neurok sky agent

Vaultbreaker

Creature - Orc Rogue

Whenever Vaultbreaker attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vedalken Anatomist

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

"Specimen 211 examination report. Observation: graft sublimation incomplete. Result: death. Prepare specimen 212."

Vedalken Certarch

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft - : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

Vedalken Dismisser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Dismisser enters the battlefield, put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"I crept up on him, quiet as a guttermouse. And then suddenly I found myself facedown in a latrine pit behind Tin Street Market."
-Sirislav, Dimir spy

Vedalken Entrancer

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Don't get any ideas."

Vedalken Ghoul

Creature - Vedalken Zombie

Whenever Vedalken Ghoul becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

For four nights following Ennor's death and the reclaiming of his etherium, its recipients were found slain, the etherium ripped from their bodies.

Vedalken Heretic

Creature - Vedalken Rogue

Whenever Vedalken Heretic deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"Etherium clouded my eyes, clogged my ears, desensitized my skin. Now that I can feel, I can begin to learn."

Vedalken Infuser

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on target artifact.

"All plans begin as dreams. I intend to awaken them."

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.